[tor-talk] What's the proper way to reset entry guards?

[mirimir]

On 08/05/2013 10:42 PM, Lunar wrote:

> mirimir:
>> With persistent entry guards, there are potentially records that
>> correlate activity from multiple IP addresses (such as VPN exits or WiFi
>> access points).
>>
>> What's the best way to reset entry guards? I find nothing in man tor or
>> man torrc, or by searching the Tor Project wiki. Editing or deleting
>> DataDirectory/state seems crude.
> 
> It looks like editing DataDirectory/state is currently the only way.
> Feel free to propose an addition to the control protocol if you think it
> would be useful.

Thank you. I ended up stopping tor, deleting everything in
DataDirectory/, and starting tor. It's crude, but it works.

I'll create a feature-request ticket.